BURLINGTON, United States — Vermont — known for Bernie Sanders, maple syrup and the birthplace of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream — has a new claim to fame: America’s most-vaccinated state against Covid-19.
Home to red farmhouses and signs warning drivers of moose, the US’s second-least populated state recently became the first to partially vaccinate 80 percent of eligible residents.
“It makes us probably the safest place in the country and maybe the world,” says health commissioner Mark Levine, who has a bobblehead of top US pandemic advisor Anthony Fauci on his desk.
The rural, northeastern state has administered at least one vaccine dose to 82 percent of …
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